About Expo

EDEX Expo - Sri Lanka's Largest Education Exhibition & Job Fair

With a very high literacy rate of 92.5% an increasing number of aspiring Sri Lankan youth constantly look for choices, options and opportunities in higher education, training, gainful employment and entrepreneurship. Due to limited places in state universities and other academic and vocational institutes, many students with good post secondary grades, also look for overseas placements every year.

EDEX Empowers - Being the pioneer and market leader since 2004, EDEX Expo offers a unique and most comprehensive platform for the youth to seek, local and overseas tertiary educational opportunities and make informed decisions.

Held as 3 exhibitions annually to best suit the Sri Lankan academic calendar in Colombo and Kandy, ideally caters to the exacting needs of the youth and their parents. Concurrently held Job Fair attracts multiple job seekers who also constantly look for further education opportunities, making the events attractive to even post graduate course providers.

With a focused career guidance programme that includes free psychometric testing followed by personal counselling and several other enrichment and outreach programmes EDEX offers seamless and limitless end-to-end opportunities in the school to work transition process under one roof.

Why Choose EDEX Expo

Wider reach by being the largest gathering of reputed educational institutes, students, parents, employers and job seekers.

Over 65,000 visitors each year.

Employment opportunities offered at the venue.

Creates exposure for your institute / curriculum to the target market through brand association with EDEX.

EDEX Expo provides a unique and timely opportunity for local / overseas educational institutes to establish their presence in Sri Lanka.

2017 BMICH Floor Layout

EDEX Expo 2017 Kandy Floor Layout

Request Form for Space Allocation 2017

Request Form for Space Allocation 2017

Request Form for Space Allocation 2017

About Mid Year Expo

Who We are...

We are the Pathfinders. We are Sri Lanka's Pioneer in Tertiary Education & Careers Exhibitions; the only single platform offering end-to-end connectivity from higher education to gainful employment.

Our Objective...

To invite the cream of educational service providers in order to promote their courses, programmes, services and academic prowess to an exclusive captive segment of the Post A/L student population.

The Timing...

The EDEX Mid-year Expo is held in September, immediately after the conclusion of the Advanced Level examinations. This is the time students look for tertiary education options with the intention of making the right career choice. Therefore, EDEX Mid-year Expo presents the ideal opportunity for the smart exhibitor to directly interact with the post A/L student populace at the most opportune time.

The Location

Why choose EDEX Mid-year Expo?

Organized by the leader in the tertiary education & careers exhibition sector in Sri Lanka.

An excellent timely opportunity for overseas institutions to establish and expand their presence in Sri Lanka, engaging directly with a large segment of potential students and anxious parents.

An excellent branding opportunity to create visibility to a targeted captive audience.

EDEX Expo 2015 declared open by H.E. President Maithripala Sirisena

Mid Expo 2016 - Marketing Brochure

Welcome to largest and most comprehensive National Higher Education and Careers Expo in Sri Lanka

Job Fair

Persisting high unemployment and underemployment among Sri Lankan youth are grave concerns undermining the outcomes of our free education system as even the ‘cream of the crop’ that enter local universities too are often being tagged as ‘unemployable’. This is evident through having 8.6% unemployment among labour force who reached education above G.C.E (A/L) and having 31.7% unemployment among labour force below the age of 29 years (Source-CBSL Annual Report-2013).

It’s in this background that The National Human Resources and Employment Policy (NHREP) was formulated in June 2011 aimed at achieving “full, productive and freely chosen employment for all women and men in Sri Lanka and to work towards a highly competent, globally competitive, multi-skilled and productive workforce in the country”. According to the policy document “Sri Lanka has long been a model of social development for developing countries, but translating that into economic prosperity requires greater emphasis on human resource development and employment generation”. (Source: http://www.nhrep.gov.lk/)

With the shared vision of EDEX towards ‘empowering Sri Lankan Youth to be globally competitive’ EDEX Mid-Year Expo Job fair aims to provide a platform for the human resource development and employment generation as envisioned in the National Human Resources and employment policy.

EDEX Mid-Year Job Fair is endorsed by the Ministry of Education,Ministry of Higher Education and Research, State Ministry of Youth Affairs, Ministry of Labour, Skills Development and Vocational Training and the International Labour Organization (ILO).

Our Objectives

To be a conduit between the seekers of ‘right employment’ and the ‘right employers’. To bring together the Demand and Supply of Employment under one roof and to showcase global employment trends, provide professional career guidance and resources leading to gainful employment for Sri Lankan youth.